News on the topic: political prisoners
18.03.2014 Mikalai Autukhovich to face police supervision after release
A court session was held today in Hrodna prison to address the possibility of subjecting political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich to preventive police supervision after his release due on 8 April. The prisoner’s lawyer was not able to attend the trial, having received the notice only half an hour ahead of it.
15.03.2014 Aliaksandr Artsybashau and Pavel Vinahradau sentenced to large arrest terms
The activists of “Zmena” (the youth wing of “Tell the Truth”) were detained on March 13. Artsybashau drove to the office of the police inspection, where ex-political prisoner Vinahradau came for regular registration.
15.03.2014 Candidates Illia Dabratvor and Anatol Zhylko get detained near the detention center in Akrestsin Street
March 14, Minsk police detained a candidate of the Belarusian Popular Front for the local councils, Illia Dabratvor, and a candidate of the United Civil Party, Anatol Zhylko, near the detention center in Akrestsin Street, where they were meeting ex-political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich and Yauhen Tsikhanau, who were released after serving 12-day arrest terms for an action of protest against the Russian intervention in the Ukraine.
13.03.2014 Navapolattsk activists apply for picketing on Freedom Day
In Navapolatsk, representatives of political parties and democratic civil society organizations filed an application for a picket on Freedom Day, March 25.
11.03.2014 Political prisoner Uladzimir Yaromenak released from detention facility
Last August, Minsk's Pershamaiski district court found Yaromenak guilty of violating the rules of preventive supervision and sentenced him to three months in detention. Uladzimir and his lawyer appealed against the court decision, but the Minsk city court upheld the ruling. Yaromenak was taken into custody on December 11.
11.03.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich is kept in solitary confinement
Former presidential candidate Mikalai Statkevich is not sure of his safety in prison. He asked to be moved to a solitary cell. He wrote it to his wife Maryna Adamovich, RFE/RL reports.
05.03.2014 Uladzimir Makei speaks about the fate of Belarusian political prisoners
March 1, Foreign Minister of Belarus Uladzimir Makei gave an interview to the news agency BNS (Baltic News Service) in Vilnius. Here's the full text of the interview, posted on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus.
03.03.2014 Political prisoner Mikalai Statkevich applies for safe confinement conditions
The application was caused by frequent provocations against the political prisoner. Mikalai Statkevich thinks he faces more provocations due to the deteriorating economic situation in the country and the authorities' desire to make him apply for clemency.
27.02.2014 Political prisoner Andrei Haidukou meets parents in prison
The family of Andrei Haidukou, who is serving a sentence in Mahiliou penal colony No. 19, have had a long meeting with the prisoner. This was reported by his mother Volha Haidukova. "My husband and I are returning from Mahiliou. The meeting was O.K. Andrei feels well, his mood is good, too. We were there for three days: we arrived on Friday afternoon and now we are driving back," she said.
19.02.2014 EU views only six Belarusians as political prisoners, rights defender says
Minsk, 18 February. The European Union views only six citizens of Belarus as political prisoners, Valyantsin Stefanovich, deputy chairman of a human rights organization called Vyasna (Spring), told European Radio for Belarus on Monday evening with reference to the ambassador of an EU country.
17.02.2014 Maryna Adamovich writes to Israeli PM
The wife of Mikalai Statkevich responded to a remark by ambassador Yosef Shagal, who called the Belarusian political prisoners criminals.
13.02.2014 Political prisoner Parfiankou transferred to Horki
February 11 Vasil Parfiankou was transfered from pre-trial detention facility No. 7 in Zhodzina to correctional colony No. 9 in Horki.
13.02.2014 Supervision for Zmitser Dashkevich extended for 3 months
Minsk's Pershamaiski district court extended the preventive supervision for Young Front's co-head.
12.02.2014 Israel's Ambassador Shagal calls Belarusian political prisoners criminals
Joseph Shagal compared the Belarusian political prisoners with Palestinian extremists. He said it in an interview with RTVI channel on February 6.
10.02.2014 Belarus still has no intention to invite Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
In the near future Belarus intends to confirm the invitation to visit the country for a number of special rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) . This was stated by the head of the main bureau of of the multilateral diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yury Ambrazevich on February 10 at a briefing in Minsk.o